#Slave

You may know that the best cadet in the National Defense Academy is given a gold medalBut do you know that the name of that medal is "Lachit Borphukan"?After reading
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28 life lessons worth sharing1. No one has it all figured out2. Being nice is overrated, be kind, be fair, be understanding, not “nice”3. To love is to be vulnerable,
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Accept, Don't be satisfied Imagine finding yourself seeking all answers in destruction, Discovering new rock bottoms every passing day Realising you are not "strong" after allEmbrace yourself, Accept, don't be
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Reading Nepali history apart from our social studies textbook will make you realize how much the whole "Nepal was never invaded by foreigners" is so bullshit. If the British wanted
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Love scrolling through audition sites and seeing the sudden increase of roles for Black actors, but if I see one more casting call with the words “sassy,” “no-nonsense,” or “feisty,”
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The thing very few have realized about the Logan Act that many are realizing today is that *secretly negotiating with a foreign power* is basically the *definition* of "collusion."So whether
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A thread on the legendary all female Dahomey Amazons warriors of the Empire of Dahomey (Present day Republic Of Benin, not to be confused with the Great Benin Kingdom). The
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Thought vis-a-vis why the police can't be reformed, a thread.You ever wonder why roads are a certain width?Like, there has to be a reason. Things never just happen, but sometimes
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Just watched #socialdilemma on Netflix. To borrow an Americanism it got me pissed!!!! Thread coming on. 1/? Social media using the "attention extraction model" is actually older than they appreciate.
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(1/4) We deeply regret the destruction of the statue of Saint Junípero Serra in San Francisco today, and would like to offer a reminder of his great efforts in support
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I have used this lockdown period to reread some old "classics". As I was reading Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon, his chapter about language, especially in the context
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Some things worth remembering on Juneteenth: Texas’ size and isolation allowed slavers to keep knowledge of Emancipation from the enslaved. Large slaveholders in coastal areas also moved enslaved people around
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1/n They praise Greek Philosophers all the time but they praised India day & night.Few quotes"In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering
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Kesikhangelisiseni Indaba ye"Nunu" lama"Zimu" in Southern Africa The transportation of slaves from Southern Africa to the African coasts or it's shores, preparing them for shipment to Europe and the
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Racial_slavery_denialism.jpg An indicator of its prevalence on social media rn is that my work has been cited by multiple “fact check” teams (@USATODAY - @AFP - @Reuters - @thejournal_ie) over
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I missed this -the Telegraph complaining the @nationaltrust is ‘woke’ for identifying properties that benefitted from the slave trade historically. “To question the historical reputation of properties in this way
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